Albert (John Savage) is a psychopath who, after brutally murdering a woman, becomes obsessed with her 11-year-old daughter Annie. Twenty-one years after being sent to prison for his crimes, Albert is freed over the strenuous objections of Dr. Sachs (John Saxon), the psychiatrist who has been overseeing Albert's case all these years. Sachs is convinced that Albert is still a very real threat to the community, and it turns out that he's right; desperate to find Annie, but not knowing what surname she uses today, Albert begins contacting every Annie he can find in the phone book, leaving a bloody trail of murdered women in his path when they turn out not to be the little girl he's looking for
After a young girl is accidently infected with an alien substance known as "Deep Red", the astonishing results attract the attention of the illustrious scientist Dr. Newmeyer. Disillusioned security expert Joe Keyes must team up with his estranged wife to protect the girl and her mother from the obsessed scientist who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
헬스 클럽을 경영하고 있는 이혼남 마이클(Michael: 윌리암 부미러 분)의 애인인 로라(Laura: 브렌다 브케 분)는 헬스 클럽에서 운동을 하다가 사우나실에 들어가 있는데 갑자기 뜨거운 열기가 나와서 죽을 뻔한 위기를 모면한다. 이 연락을 받은 마이클은 병원으로 뛰어가고, 경찰에도 알리지만 원인은 알 길 없다. 그 후에도 계속 사고를 유발한 살인이 연속적으로 일어나고 여러명이 죽어간다. 마이클은 이 일이 있은 다음부터 계속 악몽을 꾼다. 휠체어가 등장을 하고 그 위에 로라가 불타고 있는 장면이 항상 보인다. 그리고 불안해진 마이클은 심령학하는 사람을 찾아가서 그에게 도움을 요청한다. 그가 헬스크럽 곳곳을 돌아다니다가 지하실에서 심령이 있는것을 느꼈으나 그곳에서 그들에게 죽음을 당한다.
When wealthy real estate developer Richard Tate seizes land belonging to a Native American tribe for his next construction project, a group of young men from the tribe decide to kidnap Tate's daughter Allison as a means of persuading her father to abandon the project and return their land. As time drags on with no resolution in sight, Allison begins to sympathize with the plight of her captors and joins them in their fight against her father.